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April 22, 2014

Saudi Arabia: What Faqih said after his visit to King Fahd Hospital

Via Justice, a Saudi newspaper: Photos - What Fakih said after his visit to King Fahd Hospital. You can read the report with Google Translate, but that's not the important thing here. It's a series of photos of the new minister Adel Faqih, marching through the corridors of the hospital, pulling on gloves, mask and plastic overgarment, and then going in to talk with a MERS patient.

Yes, he should have had a cap and goggles on, but this was a photo op, not a serious sortie into enemy territory. As public-health theatre, it works pretty well. But we still don't have any MERS numbers for April 22.

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Saudi Arabia: What Faqih said after his visit to King Fahd Hospital

Via Justice, a Saudi newspaper: Photos - What Fakih said after his visit to King Fahd Hospital. You can read the report with Google Translate, but that's not the important thing here. It's a series of photos of the new minister Adel Faqih, marching through the corridors of the hospital, pulling on gloves, mask and plastic overgarment, and then going in to talk with a MERS patient.

Yes, he should have had a cap and goggles on, but this was a photo op, not a serious sortie into enemy territory. As public-health theatre, it works pretty well. But we still don't have any MERS numbers for April 22.